杠

See also: 槓

杠 U+6760, 杠 CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6760 ← 束 [U+675F] CJK Unified Ideographs 条 → [U+6761]

Translingual

Han character

杠 (Kangxi radical 75, 木+3, 7 strokes, cangjie input 木一 (DM) or 難木一 (XDM), four-corner 4191₀, composition ⿰木工)

Derived characters

• 𫰬

References

• Kangxi Dictionary: page 512, character 13
• Dai Kanwa Jiten: character 14481
• Dae Jaweon: page 898, character 3
• Hanyu Da Zidian (first edition): volume 2, page 1157, character 1
• Unihan data for U+6760

Chinese

simp. and trad.		杠

Glyph origen

Characters in the same phonetic series (工) (Zhengzhang, 2003) 

	Old Chinese
缸	*kroːŋ, *ɡroːŋ
篢	*kluːmʔ, *koːŋ
贑	*kluːmʔ
涳	*ŋr'oːŋ, *kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋ
江	*kroːŋ
肛	*kroːŋ, *qʰroːŋ
扛	*kroːŋ
杠	*kroːŋ
豇	*kroːŋ
茳	*kroːŋ
釭	*kroːŋ, *koːŋ, *kuːŋ
矼	*kroːŋ
玒	*kroːŋ, *koːŋ
虹	*kroːŋs, *koːŋs, *ɡoːŋ
腔	*kʰroːŋ
崆	*kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋ
羫	*kʰroːŋ
控	*kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋs
椌	*kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋ
悾	*kʰroːŋ, *kʰoːŋ, *kʰoːŋs
跫	*kʰroːŋ, *kʰoŋ, *ɡoŋ
啌	*qʰroːŋ
谾	*qʰroːŋ, *qʰoːŋ
舡	*qʰroːŋ
缻	*ɡroːŋ
項	*ɡroːŋʔ
屸	*ɡ·roːŋ
功	*koːŋ
工	*koːŋ
疘	*koːŋ
魟	*koːŋ, *qʰoːŋ, *ɡoːŋ
攻	*koːŋ, *kuːŋ
愩	*koːŋ
碽	*koːŋ
貢	*koːŋs
羾	*koːŋs
空	*kʰoːŋ, *kʰoːŋs
箜	*kʰoːŋ
硿	*kʰoːŋ
埪	*kʰoːŋ
鵼	*kʰoːŋ
倥	*kʰoːŋ, *kʰoːŋʔ, *kʰoːŋs
鞚	*kʰoːŋs
叿	*qʰoːŋ
嗊	*qʰoːŋʔ
訌	*ɡoːŋ
紅	*ɡoːŋ
仜	*ɡoːŋ
葒	*ɡoːŋ
渱	*ɡoːŋ
鴻	*ɡoːŋ, *ɡoːŋʔ
汞	*ɡoːŋʔ
澒	*ɡoːŋʔ
鞏	*koŋʔ
巩	*koŋʔ
銎	*kʰoŋ, *qʰoŋ
恐	*kʰoŋʔ, *kʰoŋs
蛩	*ɡoŋ
筇	*ɡoŋ
桏	*ɡoŋ
邛	*ɡoŋ

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 / 形声, OC *kroːŋ) : semantic 木 (“tree”) + phonetic 工 (OC *koːŋ).

Etymology 1

For pronunciation and definitions of 杠 – see 槓 (“thick rod; thick pole; bar; etc.”). (This character is the simplified and variant form of 槓).

Notes: Simplified Chinese is mainly used in Mainland China, Malaysia, and Singapore. Traditional Chinese is mainly used in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gāng (gang¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄤ

• Cantonese (Jyutping): gong¹

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gāng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄤ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gang
    • Wade–Giles: kang¹
    • Yale: gāng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gang
    • Palladius: ган (gan)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɑŋ⁵⁵/
• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
    • Jyutping: gong¹
    • Yale: gōng
    • Cantonese Pinyin: gong¹
    • Guangdong Romanization: gong¹
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kɔːŋ⁵⁵/

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• Middle Chinese: kaewng

Rime
Character	杠
Reading #	1/1
Initial (聲)	見 (28)
Final (韻)	江 (9)
Tone (調)	Level (Ø)
Openness (開合)	Open
Division (等)	II
Fanqie	古雙切
Baxter	kaewng
Reconstructions
Zhengzhang Shangfang	/kˠʌŋ/
Pan Wuyun	/kᵚɔŋ/
Shao Rongfen	/kɔŋ/
Edwin Pulleyblank	/kaɨwŋ/
Li Rong	/kɔŋ/
Wang Li	/kɔŋ/
Bernhard Karlgren	/kɔŋ/
Expected Mandarin Reflex	jiāng
Expected Cantonese Reflex	gong1

• Old Chinese

  (Zhengzhang): /*kroːŋ/

Zhengzhang system (2003)
Character	杠
Reading #	1/1
No.	3998
Phonetic component	工
Rime group	東
Rime subdivision	0
Corresponding MC rime	江
Old Chinese	/*kroːŋ/

Definitions

杠

1. flagpole
2. bridge

Compounds

• 徒杠
• 杠人
• 杠梁
• 杠轂

 

Etymology 3

Pronunciation

• Mandarin

  (Pinyin): gōng (gong¹)

  (Zhuyin): ㄍㄨㄥ

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• Mandarin
  • (Standard Chinese)⁺
    • Hanyu Pinyin: gōng
    • Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄥ
    • Tongyong Pinyin: gong
    • Wade–Giles: kung¹
    • Yale: gūng
    • Gwoyeu Romatzyh: gong
    • Palladius: гун (gun)
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /kʊŋ⁵⁵/

Definitions

杠

1. Only used in 杠里.

Japanese

Kanji in this term
杠
ゆずりは Hyōgai
kun'yomi

Kanji

杠

(Hyōgai kanji)

Readings

• Go-on: こう (kō)^{←こう (kou, historical)}
• Kan-on: こう (kō)^{←かう (kau, historical)}
• Kun: ちぎ (chigi, 杠)、ちきり (chikiri, 杠)、はたざお (hatazao, 杠)、ゆずりは (yuzuriha, 杠)

Etymology

Kanji in this term
杠
ゆずりは Hyōgai
kun'yomi

For pronunciation and definitions of 杠 – see the following entry.

【ゆずりはユズリハ】 [noun] Daphniphyllum macropodum Alternative spellings 譲葉, 楪

(This term, 杠, is an alternative spelling (rare) of the above term.)

Korean

Hanja

杠 • (gang) (hangeul 강, revised gang, McCune–Reischauer kang, Yale kang)

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Vietnamese

Han character

杠: Hán Nôm readings: gông, giang

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